Sandbox To Growth

Once you're live, there's always room to grow. Your best new Products often start as everyday work you ask your team to do. This guide shows you how to spot those, try them safely, and turn them into Products Buyers can order.

In this guide: trying ideas safely, asking your team for work, turning repeat work into Products, and a weekly routine.

Try ideas safely

You can test any Product, live ones included, in My Products, Sandbox & Test. Tests follow the same steps as a real Order, but nothing there reaches a Buyer. Try a new idea or a change as many times as you like before you publish it.

Ask your team for useful work

When you know what you want but not yet how to package it, just ask. Name who it's for, how often you need it, and what you'd like back. For example:

Every Monday, give me a short market update for my Buyers: three things that changed last week and what they mean.

Other things worth asking:

Give me a plan to reach ten new Buyers this week.

Look at my last five Orders. Should any Product be cheaper, bundled, or split into a premium version?

Turn repeat work into a Product

If you find yourself asking for the same thing again and again, and it's useful every time, that's a good sign it could be a Product. The steps are the same as for your first one:

1. Create the Product and describe it to the Product advisor.
2. Set the price, how Buyers reach you, and how they pay.
3. Test it in Sandbox & Test.
4. Publish it.

If it should arrive on a schedule, such as every Monday, set that up in the Product's Repeat delivery settings.

See Products, pricing, and publishing for the details.

Keep your team learning

Each time your team learns something worth keeping, such as a question Buyers ask often or an example of work they loved, add it to My Knowledge. Check the Review tab there too, where your team suggests things it has learned for you to approve.

The more your team knows, the less you'll need to explain each time.

A weekly routine

• Look at which Products sold and which work Buyers liked best.
• Ask your sales and marketing teammates for new ideas on who to reach and how.
• Turn good delivered work into posts or examples for your public page.
• Add anything your team should remember to My Knowledge.
• Update a Product when you find a better way to deliver it, and test it again before publishing.